In recent years, scientific research has been able to confirm that the anxiety disorder known as Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD) is more common than originally thought. According to recent reports by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 1.2% of all US adults have been diagnosed with OCD – with over 80% of the affected suffering […]
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Golden fantasy
This article was published on wikipedia.org, and is shown here in its original form. However, this version is designed for website accessibility standards. Golden fantasy is a secret (or not-so-secret) expectation that all of one’s problems can be solved by interaction with a perfect and all-caring relationship figure. The fantasy […]
Collective depression
This article was published on wikipedia.org, and is shown here in its original form. However, this version is designed for website accessibility standards. Collective depression is one of many collective mental states, such as collective elation, collective paranoia, collective trauma, or collective grief, which may affect a group, community or whole nation. […]
Delusional intuition
This article was published on wikipedia.org, and is shown here in edited form. This version is designed for website accessibility standards. Delusional intuition is an illusion in the context of the intuitive rather than an experience of false intuition. The person experiences something that resembles the intuitive, but instead, the […]
Fantasy bond
This article was published on wikipedia.org, and is shown here in its original form. However, this version is designed for website accessibility standards. The fantasy bond is a type of relationship where the basic tie is based on routines and roles, rather than spontaneous feelings. It is a term used to describe an […]
Sudden wealth syndrome
This article was published on wikipedia.org, and is shown here in its original form. However, this version is designed for website accessibility standards. Sudden wealth syndrome (SWS) is a name given to adjustment problems afflicting individuals who suddenly come into large sums of money, such as those who win the lottery. […]
Psychosexual disorder
This article was published on wikipedia.org, and is shown here in its original form. However, this version is designed for website accessibility standards. Psychosexual disorder is a sexual problem that is psychological, rather than physiological in origin. “Psychosexual disorder” was a term used in Freudian psychology. The term of psychosexual disorder (Turkish: Psikoseksüel bozukluk) […]
Ulysses syndrome
This article was published on wikipedia.org, and is shown here in its original form. However, this version is designed for website accessibility standards. Ulysses syndrome (Immigrant Syndrome of Chronic and Multiple Stress) is an atypical set of depressive, anxious, dissociative, and somatoform symptoms that results from being exposed to extreme levels of stress unique to the […]
Involutional melancholia
This article was published on wikipedia.org, and is shown here in its original form. However, this version is designed for website accessibility standards. Involutional melancholia or involutional depression is a traditional name for a psychiatric disorder affecting mainly elderly or late middle-aged people, usually accompanied with paranoia. It is classically defined as “depression of gradual onset […]
Paradise Syndrome
This article was published on wikipedia.org, and is shown here in its original form. However, this version is designed for website accessibility standards. Paradise Syndrome, while not officially recognized by psychologists as a mental condition, is a term used by some to refer to a condition in which a […]